Reading at Deykin JI School
Children who love to read are much more likely to succeed in all subjects and achieve academic success later in life. Following on from the early phonics work, the children progress to understand and enjoy a range of high-quality texts which have been chosen based on the National Curriculum Programme of Study. Daily reading sessions provide opportunities for encouraging and embedding reading for pleasure. Similarly, whole class texts and reading books for each year group are ambitious, thought provoking and support our pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
Embedding a Love of Reading
To promote a love of reading at Deykin Avenue JI School, we use a wide range of stories, poems, rhymes, and non-fiction texts. We also:
Early Reading
All early readers study phonics daily using the Read, Write, Inc scheme. The expectation is that pupils will have successfully completed the programme by the end of the autumn term in year 2. If they do not reach this goal, additional interventions will be offered daily to accelerate their progress.
Accelerated Reader
We have recently bought into AR for KS2; each half term, a Star Reader test allows us to measure each pupil’s progress in reading and provides us with accurate data on which library books they should be reading to provide the correct level of challenge for their unique needs.
Lexia
For pupils with barriers to reading, we support in the form of daily Lexia sessions. This software intuitively baselines each child and guides them through areas for development, providing lessons when difficulties arise, which are delivered by our SEND Teaching Assistant Mrs. Kerr.
Whole Class Reading
In these lessons, all the children in the class are immersed in the same high-quality literature and the discussions that these texts promote. These texts could be whole books, extracts of books or short non-fiction pieces. Teaching the whole class means that all pupils can read with the teacher more often, moving faster through more texts, or longer texts, and benefiting from the teacher’s expert explanations, modelling, questioning and feedback. It enables pupils of all abilities to access more complicated texts and content.
Children are taught the skills of reading (outlined in the National Curriculum and the KS1 and KS2 test domains) through the use of VIPERS which were created by Rob Smith (The Literacy Shed).
VIPERS is an anagram to aid the recall of the 6 reading domains as part of the UK’s reading curriculum. They are the key areas which we feel children need to know and understand in order to improve their comprehension of texts.
VIPERS stands for:
The Reading Vipers can be used by both KS1 and KS2 with a little adaption. The main difference being in the S.
Sequence – KS1
Summarise – KS2
Whole Class Reading Texts
Deykin Avenue JI School English Curriculum: Class Texts
Yr | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Reception | Who’s in the Loo
Rhymes: Incy Wincy Spider | Humpty Dumpty
Rhymes: Jack and Jill
| Pardon Said the Giraffe
Rhymes: Mary had a little Lamb | Monstersaurus
Rhymes: Row, Row, Row your boat | Supermarket Zoo
Rhymes: Old Macdonald | The Bear and the Piano
Rhymes: Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star
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Year 1 | A Squash and a squeeze
| Pumpkin Soup
Poetry - Scarecrow Christmas by Pie Corbett | Little Red
Poetry - Monday’s Child by Mother Goose | The Colour Monster
| Traction man
Poetry – acrostic – The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll
| Dogs Don’t do Ballet
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Year 2 | Hibernation Hotel
| Meerkat Mail
Poetry - Christmas Haiku Pie Corbett | The Day the Crayons Quit | Dread Cat
Poetry - The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear | The Dark
Poetry - The Sound Collector by roger McGough
| The Magic Finger |
Year 3 | Fantastic Mr Fox
| The Worst Witch Poetry - The Twelve Days of Christmas | Jim and The Beanstalk Poetry - Volcano by Joshua Seigal | The diary of a Killer Cat | Spy Fox – Film Unit
Poetry - You’re by Sylvia Plath
| The Night Bus Hero |
Year 4 | Georges Marvellous medicine
Poetry - Little Red by Roald Dahl
| The lost thing by Shaun Tan
Poetry – The Grinch | Macbeth
Poetry – The Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning | Arthur and The Golden Rope
| My name is not Refugee | The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Poetry - Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll |
Year 5 | Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Poetry - From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson
| Matilda
Poetry - In the bleak midwinter By Christina Rossetti
| Beowulf | Varjak Paw
Poetry - Caged Bird’ by Maya Angelou
| The Tempest | The Ways of the Wolf
Poetry - The Tyger by William Blake
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Year 6 | Orphans of the Tide
Poetry - The Kraken by Alfred Lord Tennyson | Malamander
Poetry – Twas the night before Christmas
| The Boy in the Tower
Poetry - Macavity, the Mystery Cat’ by T.S Eliot
| The Nowhere Emporium
Poetry - The Highway Man by Alfred Noyes | Romeo and Juliet
Poetry - Life Doesn’t Frighten Me by Maya Angelou
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